November 15, 2017
Last time, in the first post in my new clean code series, we discussed how I torment my students with the ol’ Square and Rectangle trick in my Clean Code course, talking about Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP). At the end… Continue Reading…
November 8, 2017
In my Clean Code class, I go through this example about the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP), part of the SOLID material. This example, the rectangle and the square, never fails to stump people, both experienced and less so. It starts out… Continue Reading…
October 24, 2017
After we understand how to use mocks in Spring in integration tests, let’s take a look at a setup for testing a REST service that uses a dependency we want to mock. API testing is a usual integration test scenario,… Continue Reading…
October 17, 2017
Let’s continue where we’ve left off – multiple configurations for integration tests. We use different configurations when we need to inject two different sets of objects. For example a real one and mocked one of the same type for different… Continue Reading…
October 10, 2017
First, a couple of words about Spring in general as a dependency injection framework. One of the best things in Spring is its simplicity of injection. Regardless of where you are, you pop an @Autowired annotation on a class variable (which… Continue Reading…
September 23, 2017
He said: “I asked all my friends, and none of them likes TDD”. This one I haven’t heard before, although I suspect I should have at some point. Like any practice, TDD has a social side. I told him to… Continue Reading…
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August 1, 2017
So far, we’ve talked about the process itself, our goals and expectations, what to look for while we’re moving forward, and now it’s time we get to the good stuff. How does an implementation plan actually look like? A good plan… Continue Reading…
July 18, 2017
We talked about management attention and support, and there’s more leaders can do, in order to help us make the process work. Remember those leading indicators? They don’t collect themselves. If we think about those indicators as a feature, there… Continue Reading…
July 11, 2017
Any process we start to roll out, requires management support. If we want it to succeed, anyway. Inside teams, if the team leader opposes the new process, she will either actively, or secretly, work against it. If she’s for it,… Continue Reading…